Current Affairs:April 11, 2021
India
- West Bengal Assembly elections: 4 killed in CISF firing at a polling booth in Cooch Behar district
- Centre to observe ‘Tika Utsav’ on April 11-14 across the country; aim to vaccinate maximum eligible people
- World Homeopathy Day celebrated on April 10; the birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)
- World Homeopathy Day theme for India: “Homeopathy- Roadmap for Integrative Medicine”
- S. Swaminathan felicitated for work towards TB eradication by Chennai-based NGO REACH
- CSIR removes NEERI (National Environment Engineering and Research Institute), Nagpur head Rakesh Kumar as Director over corruption allegations
Economy & corporate
- NITI Aayog launches Online Dispute Resolution Handbook
World
- BASIC nations oppose European Union’s idea of ‘carbon border tax’ as part of its green push; call it trade barrier
- ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) launches ‘Little Guru’ app to promote Sanskrit learning, in the Indian embassy at Beijing
- La Soufrière volcano erupts on Caribbean island of St. Vincent
- Indonesia: 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Java Island kills seven
- Sri Lanka: Jaffna Mayor Viswalingam Manivannan arrested for ‘promoting LTTE ideology’; released on bail
- Iran unveils advanced nuclear centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment plant
- UAE names first female astronaut Noura al-Matroushi for its space programme
- China imposes $2.8 bn penalty on Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group in monopoly probe
Sports
- Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurates Khelo India State Centre of Excellence for Rowing at Water Sports Academy in Srinagar
- Women wrestlers Anshu Malik (57 kg), Sonam Malik (62 kg) qualify for Tokyo Olympics
